There has been a second harsh blow for a group of migrants already severely let down by an immigration scheme that promised them jobs, and provided none.
Many of them paid thousands of dollars to come to Aotearoa New Zealand for work, but when the work didn't eventuate they were put into emergency housing.
Now they've been booted out with little notice - given until 10am Friday to get out.
It comes as new figures reveal Te Ratonga Manene / Immigration New Zealand (INZ) is running more than 200 investigations into alleged exploitation resulting from the troubled Accredited Employer Work Visa.
Newshub met the migrants on the streets of Auckland, still jobless, and now soon to be homeless.
"So, tomorrow at 10, you'll be out of this hotel with no accommodation and no job?," Newshub asked one of the men.
"Yes, it's very difficult for us. We still don't understand where we go, where we live," he replied.
"And we have totally no money, mostly we have zero money."
When Newshub first met the men, they were crammed into a couple of four-bedroom houses in Papakura.
Investigators eventually found about 140 men crammed into multiple properties.
The Government provided temporary accommodation in central Auckland, but four days ago the men were told they'll have to leave by tomorrow morning.
They were given five days' notice.
"So how does that make you feel?" Newshub asked one of the men.
"Feel? I cannot say, because every night we talk with our family and every night we have to cry," he said.
The man Newshub spoke to paid $24,000 for a job that didn't exist.
None of that money has been returned to him, nor has he been able to find employment or a permanent home - no matter how hard he's looked.
"Yes, yes, yes. Every day," he told Newshub.
That's backed up by Mandeep Bela, who's been representing migrants.
"Every single day I hear from these migrants that they are actively applying for jobs," Bela said.
"All these workers are now asking for is a little bit more notice."
He said the men appreciate the help they've got.
"Immigration has arranged temporary accommodation, MSD job sessions, as well as a weekly allowance for them," Bela told Newshub.
But he doesn't want them going from here, to there, to the streets of Tāmaki Makaurau.
It's a sad conclusion to what the Immigration Minister Andrew Little labelled as trafficking.
"Is this human trafficking?" Newshub asked him.
"Yes, almost definitely."
INZ said pictures of the cramped conditions "shocked New Zealand, and undermined trust and confidence in our immigration system".
New numbers show cases like this are rampant.
Right now, INZ is running 225 separate investigations, 81 employers have been suspended and 24 have had their accreditation revoked.
"We knew that this visa scheme itself is going to result in the exploitation of a lot of migrants," said Bela.
Newshub's cameras were in court last week as the immigration advisor charged in this case appeared.
It's a resolution of sorts - but not for these men who came here for a better life, but could now be turfed out onto the street.
